Kangan Surname
Approximately 650 people bear this surname
Kangan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 250 | 1:41,342 | 5,321 |
| India | 108 | 1:7,102,457 | 156,472 |
| Nigeria | 77 | 1:2,300,555 | 77,632 |
| Ivory Coast | 53 | 1:435,306 | 14,482 |
| Papua New Guinea | 32 | 1:254,804 | 34,943 |
| France | 25 | 1:2,656,909 | 193,074 |
| Pakistan | 16 | 1:11,165,243 | 51,703 |
| Australia | 14 | 1:1,928,264 | 88,951 |
| Iran | 11 | 1:6,980,229 | 145,986 |
| Burkina Faso | 10 | 1:1,835,210 | 14,348 |
| Malaysia | 10 | 1:2,949,422 | 111,742 |
| Indonesia | 9 | 1:14,694,355 | 460,137 |
| Philippines | 7 | 1:14,462,603 | 238,248 |
| South Africa | 6 | 1:9,029,617 | 189,736 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Liberia | 4 | 1:1,102,134 | 37,930 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
Kangan (3,395) may also be a first name.
Kangan Demographics
Average Kangan Salary in
United States
$15,125 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Kangan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kangan Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kangan (Hindi: कंगन, Marathi: कंगन, Tibetan: ཀན་གན་) occurs more in Benin more than any other country/territory. It can occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Kangan click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kangan? popularity and diffusion
Kangan is the 504,985th most widely held surname internationally It is held by around 1 in 11,211,609 people. The surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 62 percent of Kangan are found; 60 percent are found in West Africa and 59 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 122,244th most prevalent first name world-wide, held by 3,395 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Benin, where it is held by 250 people, or 1 in 41,342. In Benin Kangan is most frequent in: Plateau Department, where 44 percent reside, Ouémé Department, where 35 percent reside and Littoral Department, where 16 percent reside. Not including Benin this surname is found in 22 countries. It is also common in India, where 17 percent reside and Nigeria, where 12 percent reside.
Kangan Last Name Statistics demography
Kangan earn less than half the average income. In United States they earn 64.95% less than the national average, earning $15,125 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kangan Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kangan in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཀན་གན་ | kengen | - |
| Kangan in the Hindi language | ||
| कंगन | kangana | 93.59 |
| कंगना | kangana | 5.13 |
| कन्गन | kan'gana | 1.28 |
| Kangan in the Marathi language | ||
| कंगन | kangana | 48.08 |
| कंगण | kangana | 17.31 |
| कांगण | kangana | 15.38 |
| कांगन | kangana | 11.54 |
| कांगणे | kangane | 3.85 |
| कंगान | kangana | 1.92 |
| कंंगन | kamngana | 1.92 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Kangan
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